hey everybody!
LITTLE PLEASURES
so something that just sorta entertains me while i'm on my mission is the frequency with which i put on two different color nylons. now, i'm not a moron...it's a really slight difference, esp before they're on your legs, so that means that i usually don't notice until i'm out the door. then i'll be walking to the jail and i'll watch my legs and think, "pink skin tones, yellow skin tones, pink skin tones, yellow skin tones...." then when i sit i cross my ankles and stare lovingly at my mismatched skin. now i don't even care cause i secretly kind of like it. not sure why.
CARTHAGE MOMENT
so yesterday outside the jail i saw two boys piled up on this deformed looking 4-wheeler driving along the street. of course. then walking home i saw them in a yard riding the deformed 4-wheeler and it turned out to be this crazy lawnmower. of course. then this morning i was running and we had to wait to cross the street cause someone else was riding by on their lawnmower. what the? i just like it. although it taunts me a little as it reminds me of my unfulfilled dream to ride a lawnmower.
A REAL COOL EXPERIENCE
so i try and pray really hard to make each tour count at carthage. and every tour really is amazing and different even though you say most of the same things because there's a set script of the facts to present. but anyway, i often invite the visitors to go into a tour with a prayer in their hearts that they can really be taught by the Spirit and learn what they need to. so this particular tour was just two grandparents and their grandson. we were listening to the recording of part of the tour and i take that time to really think and pray before i end with my testimony. so this time i just had a random thought about joseph smith and the absence of hatred he had towards his persecutors throughout his life. so i shared that thought with them at the end, although it's not anything i've shared before cause it's nothing i'd really thought about before. at the end of the tour there was such a strong feeling in the room. everyone was very still and very quiet. they were all pretty emotional and i let them be there with just their family at the end while i waited downstairs. at the end of the tour the grandma just told me how they've had some things their family has been struggling with that is leaving them really having to forgive people and it's been a really hard thing with them and that the things that were mentioned in the tour really hit home with her in a whole new way, even though she's taken this tour a couple times before. that's the coolest thing. that's how the Holy Ghost works. when prayers are offered (or even sometimes when they're not) the Lord will work on a need we have through other people and it's so, so neat to be a part of that. i had no idea what was going on in their lives and i still don't but the Lord does and He made sure they heard what they needed to, whether it was through something i said or just though the Spirit touching their hearts. i love it! it's the coolest thing and it's something we can have the comfort of every day as we live worthy of it.
ok, love you all. see ya!
Friday, August 31, 2007
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
MORE BUGALICIOUS
so...i only highlighted a couple of the bugs last time so of course that night we had a grusome run-in with a breed i hadn't mentioned. chiggers. (chiggas as my comp says). so they're these little flea-like things but smaller that live in the grass. everyone always talks of how terrifying they are (a man on the plane over here told me about when he got chiggers and had to bathe in bleach. what the?) so we're always paranoid to walk in the grass. but we treat our nylons and clothes with this bug stuff and we've gotten more lax (as has the effectiveness of the treatment over washes) since the sisters have gone without any chigger incidents....until now. my comp and i were watching a performance outside and we could tell we were being bitten but it was the last show of the summer so it was all sentimental and stuff. the next AM we woke up and...so you heard me say the man "got" chiggers, right? not just "got bitten by." yeah, that's cause they live in you. ahhh! so intense. they burrow into your skin and liquify it to feed off of and then reproduce. you're supposed to suffocate them with nail polish. the dr here said we must have walked through a "colony." eesh. i was actually pretty fine. i only had about 20 or less. my comp, on the other hand....was in EXCRUTIATING...itch i guess. not pain. anyway, we counted both legs and there were about 150! she'd scratch so hard her nylons would get bloody and we tried every treatment we heard of. they're on the wane now though so we're both in pretty good shape. a true adventure though. so back to avoiding grass at all costs. i'm gonna come home and be some kinda freak.
THE MAGIC OF CARTHAGE
for our last prep-day together sis thomas and i explored carthage more and took pics of the authentic this and that. so many cool buildings and stuff. and when i say so many, i mean as many as you can fit in a town of 2800. don't act like that's not a big deal though. it's almost the biggest town in the county and it even has a blinking red light at a 4-way stop. more than we can say for nauvoo. :) anyway, so we found things like rusty old windmills and an old abandoned college with a "kissin' rock" from 1965. i'll have to come back in about a year and a few months if i want to take advantage of that one.
TRANSFERS SOON, SOON, SOON
transfers are friday. they're cutting back the amt of missionaries in carthage so it's gonna get really quiet out there. sis alfaro from costa rica is coming my way. we'll just talk spanish the whole time so i'll be fluent. that's a lie. it's her b-day friday too so that'll be a treat. for me cause i'm gonna make everything i like for her bday since i don't know yet what she likes. awesome. sis thomas's bday was amazing and i have to give a shout-out to j-sco for going above and beyond with the bday assignment. we all enjoyed it immensely and everything was PERFECT! i'll go into more details in an upcoming thank you letter.
ON THE ROAD AGAIN NO MORE
i'm no longer going to be the driver next transfer (i am right now cause my comp only has an intl license). that's a little sad. i was just getting used to going a good 10 miles under the speed limit. :) that's a lie, i wasn't. but it's hilarious here. no one here is in a hurry to get anywhere. i think it's good for me. but i'm getting good at passing on a 2-lane highway. we drive through all these crazy corn fields to get here and there are kamakazi birds who fly straight from the telephone wires in front of the van when they see us coming. it's such a rush for us and them. no casualties yet.
THE GOOD STUFF :)
well, i'd like to leave you all with a thought. this week in district meeting we talked about following the prophet. it made me so grateful to have a prophet today, Pres. Hinckley, and to know that he speaks directly the things the Lord would have us hear. what more could we ask for. a lot of times when we talk to people they say there's no need for prophets today or thing that infringes on your agency because the prophet is telling you what to think. but i think if you ask those same people if they were given the opportunity to sit at the foot of their Father in Heaven and listen to the counsel He has for them, would they take it? yes, undoubtedly. what better source for your direction? we have that same blessing offered through a prophet. we can know exactly what the Lord would have us hear. when we're choosing to follow the prophet we're simply choosing to follow He whose servant the prophet is. i'm so grateful for that and i'm already looking forward to conference in October when we can hear from the prophet and apostles.
love you all and i definately feel the strength of all of the prayers and support. :) feel free to shoot me an email update!
so...i only highlighted a couple of the bugs last time so of course that night we had a grusome run-in with a breed i hadn't mentioned. chiggers. (chiggas as my comp says). so they're these little flea-like things but smaller that live in the grass. everyone always talks of how terrifying they are (a man on the plane over here told me about when he got chiggers and had to bathe in bleach. what the?) so we're always paranoid to walk in the grass. but we treat our nylons and clothes with this bug stuff and we've gotten more lax (as has the effectiveness of the treatment over washes) since the sisters have gone without any chigger incidents....until now. my comp and i were watching a performance outside and we could tell we were being bitten but it was the last show of the summer so it was all sentimental and stuff. the next AM we woke up and...so you heard me say the man "got" chiggers, right? not just "got bitten by." yeah, that's cause they live in you. ahhh! so intense. they burrow into your skin and liquify it to feed off of and then reproduce. you're supposed to suffocate them with nail polish. the dr here said we must have walked through a "colony." eesh. i was actually pretty fine. i only had about 20 or less. my comp, on the other hand....was in EXCRUTIATING...itch i guess. not pain. anyway, we counted both legs and there were about 150! she'd scratch so hard her nylons would get bloody and we tried every treatment we heard of. they're on the wane now though so we're both in pretty good shape. a true adventure though. so back to avoiding grass at all costs. i'm gonna come home and be some kinda freak.
THE MAGIC OF CARTHAGE
for our last prep-day together sis thomas and i explored carthage more and took pics of the authentic this and that. so many cool buildings and stuff. and when i say so many, i mean as many as you can fit in a town of 2800. don't act like that's not a big deal though. it's almost the biggest town in the county and it even has a blinking red light at a 4-way stop. more than we can say for nauvoo. :) anyway, so we found things like rusty old windmills and an old abandoned college with a "kissin' rock" from 1965. i'll have to come back in about a year and a few months if i want to take advantage of that one.
TRANSFERS SOON, SOON, SOON
transfers are friday. they're cutting back the amt of missionaries in carthage so it's gonna get really quiet out there. sis alfaro from costa rica is coming my way. we'll just talk spanish the whole time so i'll be fluent. that's a lie. it's her b-day friday too so that'll be a treat. for me cause i'm gonna make everything i like for her bday since i don't know yet what she likes. awesome. sis thomas's bday was amazing and i have to give a shout-out to j-sco for going above and beyond with the bday assignment. we all enjoyed it immensely and everything was PERFECT! i'll go into more details in an upcoming thank you letter.
ON THE ROAD AGAIN NO MORE
i'm no longer going to be the driver next transfer (i am right now cause my comp only has an intl license). that's a little sad. i was just getting used to going a good 10 miles under the speed limit. :) that's a lie, i wasn't. but it's hilarious here. no one here is in a hurry to get anywhere. i think it's good for me. but i'm getting good at passing on a 2-lane highway. we drive through all these crazy corn fields to get here and there are kamakazi birds who fly straight from the telephone wires in front of the van when they see us coming. it's such a rush for us and them. no casualties yet.
THE GOOD STUFF :)
well, i'd like to leave you all with a thought. this week in district meeting we talked about following the prophet. it made me so grateful to have a prophet today, Pres. Hinckley, and to know that he speaks directly the things the Lord would have us hear. what more could we ask for. a lot of times when we talk to people they say there's no need for prophets today or thing that infringes on your agency because the prophet is telling you what to think. but i think if you ask those same people if they were given the opportunity to sit at the foot of their Father in Heaven and listen to the counsel He has for them, would they take it? yes, undoubtedly. what better source for your direction? we have that same blessing offered through a prophet. we can know exactly what the Lord would have us hear. when we're choosing to follow the prophet we're simply choosing to follow He whose servant the prophet is. i'm so grateful for that and i'm already looking forward to conference in October when we can hear from the prophet and apostles.
love you all and i definately feel the strength of all of the prayers and support. :) feel free to shoot me an email update!
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
WEEK O' GORGING
last week was sis thomas's bday so we've been eating junk food for about one straight week. aah! pretty sure i put on 5 lbs just in that week. and i wish that was a joke. my future comp (more on that later) is having a bday shortly after we become comps and then mine so i don't think the gorge-fest will stop any time too soon.
MY STREET MINISTER FRIEND
so i met this man doug who calls himself a "street minister" or "prophet-in-training." very interesting. he joined my tour late and before i knew anything about him i felt like there was definately a reason he was there. i was looking at him quite a bit throughout my tour and while bearing testimony. at the end of the tour he came down to the bottom of the stairs as asks "where are mormons going after they die?" i knew that wasn't something i could answer with just one word or anything so i told him to hang on until the rest of the tour left and that i wanted to talk to him. he said good, he wanted to talk to me too. we ended up talking for well over an hour and he was telling me a lot about his religious views. it's interesting because he doesn't have a "religion" in that sense but declares that he's simply a child of God. i asked him a lot of questions like what makes someone a child of God and if he believes are existed before living on the earth. i asked him what he thought it meant to be a prophet. in his own set of beliefs he made up i was amazed how many things seemed to coincide with the gospel. there were a lot of things that were different, however, but i could tell this man is a sincere seeker of truth and that once he finds it in its fullness, he'll have so much to add. he goes around on his own free will trying to talk to people about coming to Christ. like a self-declared missionary. he told me when he drove past the jail (he just happened into carthage) that he felt very strongly that he needed to stop and see what it was all about. he had no idea that it had any religious connections to anything. i'm positive he was supposed to be there that day. he also talked about when he drove past an LDS temple in AL and how he felt something very powerful about it and that he needed to find out what it was all about. he went inside and when the man told him that he was welcome in the foyer but couldn't come all the way in he said he immediately understood and could feel that it was sacred inside and that he wasn't prepared to go in. so cool! who has that humble attitude? i'm excited for him to learn more about the precious blessings of the temple and about this life and why exactly we're here and where exactly we're going. he was relieved to hear in answer to his question about where mormons will go that i didn't claim to know or have a definate answer but rather said that Christ will judge us all individually based on our hearts and our works. i knwo that that's true and that Christ is the only one who can judge us because He is the only one who truly has felt all of our griefs and borne our trials. i'm so thankful for that and for my knowledge of what will happen after this life and the peace that brings.
UPCOMING TRANSFERS
we just got news for transfers next week. my new comp will be sister alfaro and i'll be staying in carthage. i'm glad to stay and become closer with the seniors serving there. i'm losing clothes-sharing buddies but gaining sis south back who is my smoothie/hard-core running buddy. sis alfaro is from costa rica so i can brush up on my espanol. she's pretty quite, and by that i mean REALLY quiet, which is unusual for a VC sis so we'll see how that goes. :) when she does speak up though she's hysterical.anyway, that's about it for today. this is short, i know, but probably a nice break from all the novels i send. :)
love you all and thanks for the support! may i leave you with a scripture? Alma 26:27 it's a good one.
-sis c
last week was sis thomas's bday so we've been eating junk food for about one straight week. aah! pretty sure i put on 5 lbs just in that week. and i wish that was a joke. my future comp (more on that later) is having a bday shortly after we become comps and then mine so i don't think the gorge-fest will stop any time too soon.
MY STREET MINISTER FRIEND
so i met this man doug who calls himself a "street minister" or "prophet-in-training." very interesting. he joined my tour late and before i knew anything about him i felt like there was definately a reason he was there. i was looking at him quite a bit throughout my tour and while bearing testimony. at the end of the tour he came down to the bottom of the stairs as asks "where are mormons going after they die?" i knew that wasn't something i could answer with just one word or anything so i told him to hang on until the rest of the tour left and that i wanted to talk to him. he said good, he wanted to talk to me too. we ended up talking for well over an hour and he was telling me a lot about his religious views. it's interesting because he doesn't have a "religion" in that sense but declares that he's simply a child of God. i asked him a lot of questions like what makes someone a child of God and if he believes are existed before living on the earth. i asked him what he thought it meant to be a prophet. in his own set of beliefs he made up i was amazed how many things seemed to coincide with the gospel. there were a lot of things that were different, however, but i could tell this man is a sincere seeker of truth and that once he finds it in its fullness, he'll have so much to add. he goes around on his own free will trying to talk to people about coming to Christ. like a self-declared missionary. he told me when he drove past the jail (he just happened into carthage) that he felt very strongly that he needed to stop and see what it was all about. he had no idea that it had any religious connections to anything. i'm positive he was supposed to be there that day. he also talked about when he drove past an LDS temple in AL and how he felt something very powerful about it and that he needed to find out what it was all about. he went inside and when the man told him that he was welcome in the foyer but couldn't come all the way in he said he immediately understood and could feel that it was sacred inside and that he wasn't prepared to go in. so cool! who has that humble attitude? i'm excited for him to learn more about the precious blessings of the temple and about this life and why exactly we're here and where exactly we're going. he was relieved to hear in answer to his question about where mormons will go that i didn't claim to know or have a definate answer but rather said that Christ will judge us all individually based on our hearts and our works. i knwo that that's true and that Christ is the only one who can judge us because He is the only one who truly has felt all of our griefs and borne our trials. i'm so thankful for that and for my knowledge of what will happen after this life and the peace that brings.
UPCOMING TRANSFERS
we just got news for transfers next week. my new comp will be sister alfaro and i'll be staying in carthage. i'm glad to stay and become closer with the seniors serving there. i'm losing clothes-sharing buddies but gaining sis south back who is my smoothie/hard-core running buddy. sis alfaro is from costa rica so i can brush up on my espanol. she's pretty quite, and by that i mean REALLY quiet, which is unusual for a VC sis so we'll see how that goes. :) when she does speak up though she's hysterical.anyway, that's about it for today. this is short, i know, but probably a nice break from all the novels i send. :)
love you all and thanks for the support! may i leave you with a scripture? Alma 26:27 it's a good one.
-sis c
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Well today’s been good because this morning I went to the temple. Which in itself is always a blessing but this time I had a special surprise visitor with me… Ms Ruthie Salisbury!!!!!! :) :) :) Yes! She just off her mission about a week ago and she’s driving over to UT right now to spend some time out there and they decided to drive via Nauvoo. So there I was yesterday in the Carthage Visitor’s Center and in walks my best friend that I haven’t seen in 18 mths! The best thing ever! So I got to take her and her mom and little bro on a tour and then we got together this AM to go to the temple. The best thing is that I wasn’t even supposed to be serving that day. It was supposed to be my prep-day but it got changed. And that’s cause Ruthie said she was praying it wouldn’t be my prep day so that she could find me. :) wee!
HUMID-MY-LIFE
So turns out the summer weather was just playing a joke on us b/c aside from the one day I wrote about before, the weather has been generally very mild. But turns out August is where the humidity comes out in full effect. It’s amazing. I can’t get over how the air feels like someone misting you with warm water—regardless of the time of day. It’s incredible. My glasses fogged up the other day when I went outside. No joke. That’s going from a very A/Ced bldg to the hot and muggy outdoors. Who knew? But I like it cause it’s just so trippy. Then last night there was a crazy thunderstorm and before the rain started there was just intense thunder and lightening and really fast, hot wind and no rain. Super eerie. We sat and watched it from the window before we went to bed. I felt like a little kid. In the mid-west.
BUGSALICIOUS
So I haven’t written much aobut the bugs here but I’d like to give them a shout-out. There’s 2 I’d like to highlight- the Mayflies. These ginormous, black dragonfly-type bugs that come in these swarms and fly right passed to into your face and it’s gross but they only live for 24 hrs so the next day you go out and they’re dead all over the ground. Ha! Weird. Bug #2: The Cicada. Ok, is this a joke? I always read about them in books and they were mentioned in such a nostalgic way like “the distance sound of cicadas floating onto the patio and we rocked and talked of sweet memories …” But no. They make like this unworldly buzz/screech noise and then when you see them in real life. Ah! They’re these giant, GIANT, thick, ugly something or others. And they have no mouths and they come out of the ground and fly. Eew! But don’t worry cause the bugs make me feel hard-core like I’m serving in Africa or something. “Three-inch bug in my hair? Just part of the job, no big deal…”
THE KIWI COMPS
till having a ton of fun with Sis. Thomas. She’s way low-key, I love it…and evidently I need it. Funny cause I was telling her how I never really saw myself as uptight til I got on my mission and everyone sees me that way. And she was saying she was never seen as low-key till she got out to America. So apparently she’s pretty high-stress for an islander...Her b-day is tomorrow and we’re having orange rolls for breakfast. She’s turning 22 but I always feel like she’s older than me. I think it’s the accent. I always feel like this bumbling, oblivious American around her. That and the fact that she really is quite wise. But the accent for sure compounds it. :)
PHONE CALL CENTRAL
We’re starting our phone call project now. Each of us have about 240 ppl to get a hold of which usually will require calling at least 2 different people. It’s gonna be such a fun project. And before that we had to alphabetize and organize and divvy up all 5,000 cards. Guess who accidentally took over that project. Oops! My OCD pays off though I guess cause I was totally excited to work on it and the other sisters in charge had totally been dreading it. So everyone has their place they can contribute I guess.
AK CONNECTION
Here was a special guest…a man by the name of Bill Lawrence. I make mutual connections with ppl every day but this was a first. He knew my Cartwright grandparents!!! He worked with Grandpa Pierce for 10-12 years as his attorney and he has so many amazing things to say about grandpa and about how working with him in a business setting, every decision he made was for the good of the company and not just for him. He said that Grandpa and Grandma are two of the most amazing and kind-hearted people he knows. I second that! It was so neat to talk to him and to meet someone who knew Grandpa. It warmed my heart! I was so grateful for the chance to meet him and make that connection. I wasn’t even talking to him myself but I overheard him tell someone he was from AK and he was this kinda scraggly Harley-looking man so I didn’t think we’d know to many of the same people but just goes to show you never know. Also, you never know the effect you’re having on those around you. Something I’ve really learned from the Cartwright grandparents and I saw how many people came to Grandpa’s funeral and had been so impacted by his love and example.I know that’s the same with all of us. Every decision we make either lifts up or brings down those around us. Each of us have gifts that can touch the lives of 1,000s if we are trying to live a Christlike life.The most important Christlike attribute and the one we’ve been studying lately is charity. The scriptures tell us it’s the most important and that’s sometimes hard to understand but I had another thought as to why. I was thinking what life would be like if everyone was charitable and I realized that if everyone had charity they wouldn’t be annoyed or judge others for their weaknesses or imperfections. In this environment, everyone could be free to work on the other aspects of their life they need to improve while having love, patience, and support from those around them. Think about that. I know “the pure love of Christ” seems pretty unattainable at times but my challenge to you is to prayerfully make a goal this week of something you can be doing to develop that more in yourself. (You're welcome to email me your goals if you want because they'll help me.) I promise it will pay off and you’ll see changes in your life and in the lives of those around you as you consciously strive and pray to develop charity. If you want some study material on the topic: 1 Cor 8 and Moroni 7. Enjoy!
Love you all and love being a missionary. Thanks again for all the letters and being patient in getting letters back. It takes a bit sometimes.
Love,-Sis C
HUMID-MY-LIFE
So turns out the summer weather was just playing a joke on us b/c aside from the one day I wrote about before, the weather has been generally very mild. But turns out August is where the humidity comes out in full effect. It’s amazing. I can’t get over how the air feels like someone misting you with warm water—regardless of the time of day. It’s incredible. My glasses fogged up the other day when I went outside. No joke. That’s going from a very A/Ced bldg to the hot and muggy outdoors. Who knew? But I like it cause it’s just so trippy. Then last night there was a crazy thunderstorm and before the rain started there was just intense thunder and lightening and really fast, hot wind and no rain. Super eerie. We sat and watched it from the window before we went to bed. I felt like a little kid. In the mid-west.
BUGSALICIOUS
So I haven’t written much aobut the bugs here but I’d like to give them a shout-out. There’s 2 I’d like to highlight- the Mayflies. These ginormous, black dragonfly-type bugs that come in these swarms and fly right passed to into your face and it’s gross but they only live for 24 hrs so the next day you go out and they’re dead all over the ground. Ha! Weird. Bug #2: The Cicada. Ok, is this a joke? I always read about them in books and they were mentioned in such a nostalgic way like “the distance sound of cicadas floating onto the patio and we rocked and talked of sweet memories …” But no. They make like this unworldly buzz/screech noise and then when you see them in real life. Ah! They’re these giant, GIANT, thick, ugly something or others. And they have no mouths and they come out of the ground and fly. Eew! But don’t worry cause the bugs make me feel hard-core like I’m serving in Africa or something. “Three-inch bug in my hair? Just part of the job, no big deal…”
THE KIWI COMPS
till having a ton of fun with Sis. Thomas. She’s way low-key, I love it…and evidently I need it. Funny cause I was telling her how I never really saw myself as uptight til I got on my mission and everyone sees me that way. And she was saying she was never seen as low-key till she got out to America. So apparently she’s pretty high-stress for an islander...Her b-day is tomorrow and we’re having orange rolls for breakfast. She’s turning 22 but I always feel like she’s older than me. I think it’s the accent. I always feel like this bumbling, oblivious American around her. That and the fact that she really is quite wise. But the accent for sure compounds it. :)
PHONE CALL CENTRAL
We’re starting our phone call project now. Each of us have about 240 ppl to get a hold of which usually will require calling at least 2 different people. It’s gonna be such a fun project. And before that we had to alphabetize and organize and divvy up all 5,000 cards. Guess who accidentally took over that project. Oops! My OCD pays off though I guess cause I was totally excited to work on it and the other sisters in charge had totally been dreading it. So everyone has their place they can contribute I guess.
AK CONNECTION
Here was a special guest…a man by the name of Bill Lawrence. I make mutual connections with ppl every day but this was a first. He knew my Cartwright grandparents!!! He worked with Grandpa Pierce for 10-12 years as his attorney and he has so many amazing things to say about grandpa and about how working with him in a business setting, every decision he made was for the good of the company and not just for him. He said that Grandpa and Grandma are two of the most amazing and kind-hearted people he knows. I second that! It was so neat to talk to him and to meet someone who knew Grandpa. It warmed my heart! I was so grateful for the chance to meet him and make that connection. I wasn’t even talking to him myself but I overheard him tell someone he was from AK and he was this kinda scraggly Harley-looking man so I didn’t think we’d know to many of the same people but just goes to show you never know. Also, you never know the effect you’re having on those around you. Something I’ve really learned from the Cartwright grandparents and I saw how many people came to Grandpa’s funeral and had been so impacted by his love and example.I know that’s the same with all of us. Every decision we make either lifts up or brings down those around us. Each of us have gifts that can touch the lives of 1,000s if we are trying to live a Christlike life.The most important Christlike attribute and the one we’ve been studying lately is charity. The scriptures tell us it’s the most important and that’s sometimes hard to understand but I had another thought as to why. I was thinking what life would be like if everyone was charitable and I realized that if everyone had charity they wouldn’t be annoyed or judge others for their weaknesses or imperfections. In this environment, everyone could be free to work on the other aspects of their life they need to improve while having love, patience, and support from those around them. Think about that. I know “the pure love of Christ” seems pretty unattainable at times but my challenge to you is to prayerfully make a goal this week of something you can be doing to develop that more in yourself. (You're welcome to email me your goals if you want because they'll help me.) I promise it will pay off and you’ll see changes in your life and in the lives of those around you as you consciously strive and pray to develop charity. If you want some study material on the topic: 1 Cor 8 and Moroni 7. Enjoy!
Love you all and love being a missionary. Thanks again for all the letters and being patient in getting letters back. It takes a bit sometimes.
Love,-Sis C
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